Top news of the week: 15.08.2022.
What the Metaverse Will Mean
The dystopian virtual realities of science fiction are very far from the “3-D internet” now generating so much interest and investment.
A metaverse virtual reality basketball game raises $8 million
A company in Santa Monica made a game where players can show their inner LeBron James or Kawhi Leonard in the metaverse, where anything is […]
MTV Opens a Metaverse Experience to Promote the Video Music Awards
The temporary installation on the Roblox gaming platform is a companion to a new category that MTV has added to the awards show this year to recognize the best musical performance in the ...
Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk
There is a growing interest the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate unsafe spaces, scenarios, and behaviours. Environments that might be difficult, costly, dangerous, or ethically ...
Identity crisis: Artificial intelligence and the flawed logic of ‘mind uploading’
It is theoretically feasible that through 'mind uploading,' simulated minds could coexist inside a rich simulation of physical reality.
At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Illuminates Three Forces Sparking Graphics Revolution
NVIDIA unveils new products and research to transform industries with AI, the metaverse and digital humans.
The Metaverse: Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare
The Metaverse, despite being an almost 30 year old term, is still very much taking shape around us. In the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more ...
CITB / BAM Nuttall – Highways Induction
Blended learning experience suite across Android tablets and Virtual Reality headsets for highways road construction site induction and onboarding training